Teachers, PLEASE show your face on screen at least sometimes when you teach!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are expected to be on screen most of the time in our work setting and I expect the same of teachers. It’s 101 professional courtesy.

Eh my husband never has his camera turned on in his work setting. It seems to be just fine and everyone else has theirs off too. No one seems to think it’s a professional courtesy issue.

Does your husband also teach children? Otherwise, not the same thing at all.

Teachers should have their camera on, at least most of the time, regardless if their students are required to for DL. I would be mentioning this to the principal as well. I 100% work from home, and 90% of the time cameras are not required. However, we often turn them on for team meetings once a week. I would assume teachers want to build a relationship with their students?? Having the camera on helps in a virtual environment.

And this kid isn’t in high school, they are 11.

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The video eats data. One of our teachers is teaching from the school and when he turns the camera off it’s a much better connection.

Even if there’s not a good reason, god, who cares. Everyone always points to how education and teaching has declined but when I went home and told my parents I didn’t like so and so teacher or something they did, my parents said life is full of things and people you don’t like, so what; your job is to learn the subject and if this isn’t working for you, we can go the library so you can find some books to help you learn it.

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Teacher here. I'm at home with my 3 kids and my DH. All of us are online at the same time. We tell our students to turn off their video if we can't hear their audio and it does work so maybe the teacher doesn't have a great connection. I often turn off my video because I'm showing slides. I teach kindergarten though so I'd think it was odd for little kids never to see their teacher. The middle schoolers probably wouldn't care as much. Most of them have their video off and apparently, most of them aren't even paying attention. The MS teacher keep a tally of how many times they call on students and they don't respond at all. I saw their weekly total last night and it is multiple times per student. That's another issue that will rear its ugly head when grades come out.

[Anonymous]

Parent, PLEASE grow up! If you have an issue with your child's teacher the most reasonable course of action would be to send the teacher an email. Sheesh. This really doesn't have to be that hard.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why?
Why should she?
In FCPS, 90% of HS students don't turn on their cameras. DCUM parents scream about "privacy"... or they advise people to record any teacher who does anything they don't like and "report it to the principal." Why would any teacher show their face if there is not a solid reason to? Look at the presentation instead. Stop your freakish control issues.

It's her job. She's getting paid.

Yeah and she’s doing her job. I’m sure she’s putting in tons of time to prepare her lessons and everything else she has to do. So what if she doesn’t show her face? You can still hear her and she’s still teaching.

Exactly, maybe she feels as though her privacy rights are the same as students. Is that not true? Because she's employed by the county does she not have rights as well? It's not required she put her face on camera. I would worry about something a little more important.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are expected to be on screen most of the time in our work setting and I expect the same of teachers. It’s 101 professional courtesy.

Eh my husband never has his camera turned on in his work setting. It seems to be just fine and everyone else has theirs off too. No one seems to think it’s a professional courtesy issue.

Very true.

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Maybe she has connectivity issues when she has multiple applications running. Have you asked her about it? There may actually be a valid reason.

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Maybe she has a bad experience. I’ve seen the group chats on my 12 yo phones. Some of the kids are really mean. They take photos or video of the teacher teaching and text and post it in big group chats with 30+ kids all day. I don’t let my DC have his phone during the day but from these chats I seem to be in the minority. I would feel different if this was kindergarten but at your child’s age I would not care. The content is important. Not the teacher’s face.

[Anonymous]

I agree with your post OP. I have a request for parents in turn...PLEASE HAVE YOUR ELEMENTARY CHILD KEEP THEIR CAMERA ON. I battle this every day. I have quite a few students who keep their camera off almost always. I can ask them to turn it on, but I can’t require them to keep their video on. The kids who turn their video off are also the kids who are NOT responding to me verbally (using microphone) or in writing (via private chat). I ask questions to see if they are present, check for understanding, etc. and I get nothing in return. I reach out to parents and still no change. It is extremely challenging to teach elementary kids when I can’t see them or hear them and they never respond to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Surprised by the reactions here — this would bother me too. Completely unprofessional. Hopefully it’s unintentional as a previous poster mentioned.

agree!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We are expected to be on screen most of the time in our work setting and I expect the same of teachers. It’s 101 professional courtesy.

Eh my husband never has his camera turned on in his work setting. It seems to be just fine and everyone else has theirs off too. No one seems to think it’s a professional courtesy issue.

Does your husband also teach children? Otherwise, not the same thing at all.

Teachers should have their camera on, at least most of the time, regardless if their students are required to for DL. I would be mentioning this to the principal as well. I 100% work from home, and 90% of the time cameras are not required. However, we often turn them on for team meetings once a week. I would assume teachers want to build a relationship with their students?? Having the camera on helps in a virtual environment.

And this kid isn’t in high school, they are 11.

This is PP and my DH is not a teacher. I was responding to the bolded in PP’s statement. And they claimed other work settings have their video on. I provided a counter example. Take a breath and have a good evening.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Surprised by the reactions here — this would bother me too. Completely unprofessional. Hopefully it’s unintentional as a previous poster mentioned.

Agreed. Unprofessional.

[Anonymous]

I'm a HS teacher who keeps my camera on at all times, but I do want to point out that a LOT of pictures have been circulating of teachers teaching because students are leaving their cameras off and we have no idea when they recording us or taking pictures. I'm well aware of this, and frankly don't care/don't think I get noticed because I'm only 30, but I know the older teachers or ones who are struggling are always being posted on snapchat and being laughed at. While I agree that cameras should be on, I think it's worth considering that while your coworkers don't take pictures and send them out with the intention to doctor them and make fun of you, ours do and the camera off can be a bit of a self protection issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are expected to be on screen most of the time in our work setting and I expect the same of teachers. It’s 101 professional courtesy.

My husbands an attorney and they all keep their cameras off

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm a HS teacher who keeps my camera on at all times, but I do want to point out that a LOT of pictures have been circulating of teachers teaching because students are leaving their cameras off and we have no idea when they recording us or taking pictures. I'm well aware of this, and frankly don't care/don't think I get noticed because I'm only 30, but I know the older teachers or ones who are struggling are always being posted on snapchat and being laughed at. While I agree that cameras should be on, I think it's worth considering that while your coworkers don't take pictures and send them out with the intention to doctor them and make fun of you, ours do and the camera off can be a bit of a self protection issue.

This is a parenting issue and its sad how uninvolved parents are or don't care.